Looper

     So, I wasn't quire sure what I thought about this movie when I first saw it some time ago, but now I think I like it. It was not at all what I was expecting when I went to see it. From the previews, I was expecting to watch a some sort of cheesy action film. Bruce Willis was supposed to come back to the past and share some deep dark secret with his young self. This secret was going to lead to them running around in the past together to save the future world. Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt were supposed to be joint heros who save the day. It was supposed to be a relatively happy movie. That is not what happened.
    Bruce Willis did have a secret. The secret does lead Bruce Willis, and a little bit of Joseph Gordon Levitt, to run around in the past. But, Bruce Willis is not trying to save the world. He has his own agenda, and Joseph Gordon Levitt doesn't really have any interest in helping his future self out. In fact, the longer the movie goes on, the more Joseph Gordon Levitt disagrees with his future self. Neither one of them, past or future, are really good people. In fact, neither one of them really has any redeeming qualities on the surface, which I think is part of why I couldn't decide if I liked the movie at first.
   Before Bruce Willis shows up, there are some really disturbing scenes of crazy drugs and murders and things. So, I didn't really think the movie was going to be all that different from expecations until I got about half way through it. The disturbing parts were very artistically done, which makes the rating make sense. Speaking of the rating, such a high rotten tomatoes rating, 93%, should have been the give away. With the noted exception of The Avengers, good (cheesy) action films do not get high ratings.
   The story-line was also kind of artsy. It ended up being a pretty big commentary on society and the connectivity of past, present, and future. The title, Looper, is the name given to people in Joseph Gordon Levitt's profession, but it is also representative of the underlying theme to the movie. Life, our actions, cycles. Violence loops into violence, and kindness loops into kindness. In the end, one decision, either right or wrong, will loop into the future, which loops back into the past (with the invention of a time machine, of course). The more I think about it, the more fascinated I get. I will see this movie again, but I'm not sure I'll own it.
   In the end, I give this move a 7 out of 10, though I reserve the right to change that. :)